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Letters to Mary Cowper Powys from members of her family, including her parents, children and grandchildren.

Diaries of Phyllis Playter containing memoranda and various inserts, including press cuttings, address labels, photographs and preserved dried plants.

A series of notebooks and loose leaves containing parts of a projected (unpublished) first novel by John Cowper Powys, most of which involve a character called Glendower. These narratives are closely related to those contained in NLW MSS 23672-6E.

Envelopes addressed to the librarian Gilbert Turner, C. Benson Roberts and Susanne Lane from John Cowper Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23493-23498E, 23499D and should be considered as part of that collection.

Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from the librarian Gilbert Turner and others, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23500-23504C, 23505D and should be considered as part of that collection.

Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from his brother Littleton Charles Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23680-89 and should be considered as part of that collection.

Family correspondence and personal calling cards of members of Mary Cowper Powys's family.

Miscellaneous items of or relating to family members of Mary Cowper Powys, including photographs and estate papers.

Notebooks of Francis Llewellyn Powys containing material mostly relating to the proposed publication of John Cowper Powys's letters and diaries.

Contracts concerning publication and translation rights relating to the works of John Cowper Powys, and, in some instances, to those of John Cowper Powys's brother Theodore Francis Powys.

Papers relating to the wills of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter and to the literary executorship, copyright, translation rights and royalies, etc. of John Cowper Powys's estate concerning proposed publication and translation of, and performance rights, copyright and royalties relating to, the works of John Cowper Powys, with some of the papers relating also to the works of his brother Theodore Francis Powys and his sister Philippa (Katie) Powys. The literary executorship of both John Cowper Powys and Theodore Francis Powys was in the hands of Phyllis Player until she transferred it to John Cowper Powys's nephew, Theodore's son Francis Llewellyn Powys by deed of gift in 1972; Francis, in turn, transferred it by deed of gift to his son John Francis Cowper Powys in 1994.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick).

Carbon copies of typed letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, containing both professional correspondence and personal news.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from Phyllis Playter's father Franklin Playter.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from friends and acquaintances, including Gamel Woolsey, Marie Canavaggia, Michel Gresset and Gilbert Turner.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his sister Gertrude Powys.

Letters and telegrams to Phyllis Playter from her partner, John Cowper Powys.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet John Redwood Anderson. Many of the letters contain Anderson's comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959).

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his son Littleton Alfred Powys and the latter's close friend Dinah White, containing mostly personal news, the final phase of the correspondence chronicling Littleton Alfred's declining health.